In August, Mothership is introducing two new features designed to make booking shipments and managing your account easier than ever.

Banyan Technology, the leading provider of freight management software for all over-the-road (OTR) shipping, has announced its partnership with Mothership, an on-demand, short-haul freight-technology company, to enhance Banyan’s Local Carrier services by adding access to more than 28,000 additional box trucks in the U.S.

When it comes to the final mile, shipping businesses at scale have a low tolerance for inefficiency. Traditionally, final-mile business processes have been scattered across multiple programs — one for load matching, another for interacting with customers and another for billing, to name a few. The fragmented nature of the industry has always required shippers to work with many regional carriers or owner-operators, all of which have their own procedures and technology limitations. Shippers end up spending valuable time on searching through paperwork, manual data entry and unending phone calls and emails as they try to wrangle the many moving parts of the shipping process